Staff Design Verification Engineer, AI HW
TenstorrentJob Title
Staff Design Verification Engineer, AI HW
Role Summary
Member of the Tensix verification team validating AI compute cores, RISC-V CPUs, matrix/vector units, and chiplet-based subsystems. Build scalable DV environments and infrastructure to ensure fast, automated, production-grade verification.
Hybrid role based in Toronto, ON; Austin, TX; or Belgrade, Serbia.
Experience Level
Senior (Staff-level). Candidates at various levels may be considered and will be assessed during interviews.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include verification planning, environment development, and infrastructure improvements.
- Lead verification of Tensix IP and subsystems from early planning through tape-out; own and close coverage goals.
- Design and maintain reusable verification environments, agents, scoreboards, and supporting infrastructure in SystemVerilog and Python.
- Develop constrained-random and directed tests and close functional, code, and assertion coverage using data-driven approaches.
- Debug complex issues across RTL, testbench, and workload scenarios; collaborate with design, firmware, compiler, and architecture teams.
- Evolve DV infrastructure including regression flows, CI/CD integration, EDA compute environments, and reproducible setups.
- Work with simulation, emulation, and software-driven workloads to validate functional correctness and performance.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience; nice-to-have items listed separately.
- Strong SystemVerilog skills and experience with modern verification methodologies and structured testbench development.
- Experience across block-level to system-level verification and reasoning about microarchitecture from specs and waveforms.
- Proficient in Linux and scripting with Python or Bash to automate builds, parse logs, and manage CI pipelines.
- Experience with coverage-driven verification and confident debugging across RTL, testbench, and workload-driven scenarios.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (design, firmware, compiler, architecture).
- Nice to have: exposure to functional safety (FuSa) verification concepts for automotive AI workloads.
- Nice to have: familiarity with formal verification methodologies, SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), or formal property verification.
Education Requirements
Not specified.
About the Company
Company: Tenstorrent
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
Tenstorrent is a technology company focused on designing innovative computing solutions. They are known for their expertise in the development of advanced hardware, including ASICs and SoCs, aimed at enhancing performance and efficiency in various applications.
